We all remember the story of the tortoise and the hare. They were invited to a race. The hare was fast, but he lacked discipline, and even though he sprinted out to an early lead, he took a nap along the way, and the tortoise passed him up. Productivity in writing is...

When editing your story, you need to look for plot holes. These are gaps in the narrative where one scene jumps to the next without any plausible way of getting there. Something is missing in the middle. For those of you old enough to remember vinyl records,...

The first time I sat down to write a book I was completely overwhelmed. I had no idea how to construct a story. How does a writer know what to write and how to keep track of all the details to make a story work? At the time I started with an idea and just wrote...

Sometimes the best way to move forward is to go back to the past. That may sound strange, but I’ve found it can make sense, especially when it comes to writing. Many writers I know often complain about being stuck in their story and they can’t figure out what to write...

Why do we write? For each of us, there is a different answer to that question. And frankly, we don’t need a one size fits all placebo. But we do need to understand our own whys. W – What do you want? This is an amazingly hard question to answer. What do you want? To...

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